9.9% ▲ +15.1%
Higher than 75% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 8.6%
- 2016: 9.4%
- 2021: 9.9%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Beenleigh · Suburb / Locality
Language in Beenleigh
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
English is the main language for 79% of people in Beenleigh. While most residents speak only English, the area has a higher proportion of people using other languages at home than most similar areas.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
About 9.9% of people use a language other than English at home, which is much higher than in most similar areas but far below the national figure of 22.3%. This includes small groups speaking Tagalog, Mandarin, Punjabi and Vietnamese, while 1.4% of residents speak little or no English.
1.4% ▼ -12.5%
Higher than 80% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 1.6%
- 2021: 1.4%
Share of people who use another language at home and speak English not well or not at all. No 2011 figure — that census only asked proficiency of overseas-born residents.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Beenleigh [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL30202/beenleigh/topic/language